Samsung 470 Series 256 GB Solid State Drive Review. Page 2

Although the market is already under the great impression from the new SSDs with SATA-600 interface, we shouldn’t forget about the great time-tested products supporting older interface version, which offer excellent performance and therefore are a perfect choice for older systems upgrade.

We installed the OS’s generic drivers for the SSDs. We formatted the drives as one NTFS partition with the default cluster size. For FC-Test two 32GB partitions were created on the drives and formatted in NTFS with the default cluster size, too. The drives were connected to the mainboard’s SATA port and worked in AHCI mode.

Performance

Intel IOMeter

IOMeter is sending a stream of read and write requests with a request queue depth of 4. The size of the requested data block is changed each minute so that we could see the dependence of the drive’s sequential read/write speed on the size of the processed data block. This test is indicative of the maximum speed the drive can deliver.

Sequential reading is a strong point of the Samsung 470 drive. Its seems to be good not only as a system disk for reading data from but also as an all-purpose disk for any applications.